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    hi, understand that Ban Leong will cease as a distributor cum service ctr for Shure earphones. Is that to say Grandtech will provide after-sales services (eg, one-to-one exchange for faulty products within warranty period) with Shure products?

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    just curious, typically i see some manufacturers spec their freq response in excess of the theoretical limits, while i see some other quote the rolloff at 18kHz or thereabouts. are some designing their stuffs for dogs/cats while others adopt a more practical approach?

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    Hi Folks!

    If you find the voice of Sarah Brightman a pitch too high for your liking go for that of Hayley Westerna, a New Zealander songtress. Her voice has that musical pitch which renders any song an added ethereal 'feel'. Take the song "Will It Be" from LOTR. Enya, the original singer, gives it a 'magical' rendition. But Hayley's version is also a welcome addition. She is wonderful to hear and a beauty to behold. Try her lastest album "The best Of Hayley Westerna".

     

    regards

     

    Try Norwegian soprano, Sissel Kyrkjebø... very nice.

     

    http://www.sissel.net/

     

    or Eliane Elias, jazz pianist singer, similar to Diana Krall...

     

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    BTW she's coming to town for a one-night concert at Esplanade

     

    One-night only performance Saturday 14 Mar 2009...

     

    $58*, $88**, $118

    Concessions: Limited concessions for students, NSF and senior citizens: $40* and $60**

     

    http://www.esplanade.com.sg/whats_on/progr...lings/index.jsp

     

    “Elias is a highly skilled and fluid jazz pianist - her lushly seductive vocal performances were followed by lengthy, impressively agile improvisations.” – New York Newsday

     

    “Arguably the best Brazilian song writer since Antonio Carlos Jobim…Lins’ performance was a masterful display of musicality, entertainment, and communication.” - LA Times

     

    From samba to bossa nova, the alluring music of Brazil - with deep-rooted origins in African, European and Amerindian traditions - covers a wide array of unique styles, many of which have captured hearts, minds, radios, TV screens and dancefloors across the world. Tonight, celebrate the music of Brazil, with two of its brightest stars!

     

    Kicking off the concert is Brazilian-born and New York-based Pianist/vocalist/composer/bandleader Eliane Elias who has released 18 acclaimed solo albums, topped charts, won awards and sent audiences into raptures with her vocal and piano prowess. Performing solo, she compels with emotional nuance and assurance. Playing with her trio, she establishes fantastic group dynamics and cohesion. But always, Eliane performs with expressiveness and grace, delivering her strong compositions and reinterpretations with diverse stylistic elements from bebop, tropicalia, western classical music, straight-ahead jazz and electronica, while retaining her Brazilian core.

     

    Hear Eliane pay tribute to the music of her homeland and childhood with her quartet, playing music from her latest album - Bossa Nova Stories, a collection of freshly reworked bossa nova tunes and other classics with an enticing twist!

     

    Then welcome legendary composer/pianist/vocalist and multiple Grammy award-winner Ivan Lins. From learning the piano by ear as a gifted 18-year-old, Ivan grew to become one of Brazil’s most recorded and best-known composers overseas, his career spanning 35 years, many successful collaborations (the most enduring being his longtime partnership with fellow songwriter Vitor Martins) and 27 records, with over 350 songs recorded in Brazil and hundreds more around the world. Through the decades, Ivan’s ever-growing legacy of Brazilian popular music coloured with styles from pop to jazz to R&B has been cherished by generations and recorded and performed by prominent international artists such as Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Manhattan Transfer, George Benson, Barbra Streisand, Sting, Sérgio Mendes, Take 6 and Quincy Jones among many others.

     

    Fresh from the vivid, sultry heat of Eliane Elias’ performance, revel in the hypnotic beauty of Ivan Lin’s music. You will fall in love.

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    here is a picture of my DIY LOD. Thanks to Morgan for the tips on his website. :grin:

     

    Parts used

     

    iPod dock connector from SE

    Neutrik RCA connector

    3mm black snakeskin

    iPod dock

    Y-splitter

    Canare 4-way & 2-way microphone cable

    some heat shrink tubings

    Silver solder

    Araldite epoxy glue

     

    all can be bought from one-stop SLT except the Y-splitter from Qables. use slow-setting (12-hour) Araldite glue to close up the Y-splitter halves & dock shells gives a very strong bond and dries clear.

     

    had great fun doing my first piece... will do a few more different ones... next one in line will be a 3.5mm stereo minijack to 2 RCA cables... hehehe

     

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    the LOD cables connected to my tube headamp... ;p

     

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    If you like chill out music: Hotel Costes. I've all their albums. Very good recording. Their best collection is from vol. 2 to 5. Listening to vol.4 now......... :cans:

     

    http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_m?url=se...+costes&x=0&y=0

     

    hotel costes not really cheap, nice packaging though....somemore won't really classify them as SQ cds...

     

    if you like sax, check out John Klemmer - Touch album.

     

    Boney James, Dave Koz :grin:

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    what i tink about your case here is, you shouldnt even be adding any resistors or doing any modding at all. why would you want to add a resistor in the input section to ensure that both your hdph play at the same loudness? power is wasted in the resistor when it can be better used to drive the load. also, if u do add in a resistor in series, and u attempt to crank up the volume more, there may be more snakes (hiss) heard thru the phones.

     

    the rated power handling of headphones is just a number.

     

    senstivities (dBspl/W/m) tells u how efficient the drivers are singing given a known applied power. some manufacturers will quote their sensitivities at certain spot-frequency.

     

    ceteris paribus, a driver with a sensitivity, say, 100dB/W/m plays softer than another with 115dB/W/m. this has nothing to do with the rated power handling.

     

    on the subject of over/under-powering ur headphones, there are equally contentious schools of thoughts... google is ur best fren, you can find the info there. :grin:

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    adding a resistor in series reduces the current and attenuates the signal. it does not increase.

     

    if i not mistaken, impedance matching is such that the Zo of the output stage of the amp matches with the Zh of the headphone to gain maximum power transferred to the headphone. good headamps have this capability to maximise the output transferred to the headphones by adjusting the output impedance selector, which is typically a range of values of Z, eg,

     

    8ohms < Z < 32ohms

    33ohms < Z < 64ohms

    65ohms < Z < 120ohms

    121ohms < Z < 300ohms

     

    select the range that best matches the rated impedance of the headphones.

     

    normally it would be better to overpower the headphone rather than to underpower the headphone. that does not necessarily mean u will fry the cans, it just means u have more headroom (typically 6~10dB more) extension in terms of the reserve power. my headamp puts out a 2Wrms in the hdph out which far exceeds any rated max power of any cans. just that it's easier to drive even the most "difficult" cans w/o introducing any distortion or artifacts.

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    can just go to http://www.itunesgiftcard.biz/ to purchase the giftcard, create a phoney US account, redeem the stored value and start downloading them

     

    The US Apple iTunes offer both standard 128kbps and 256kbps AAC format, though nowadays 256kbps is more widely available. Dun think they provide lossless format as the download times can be much longer than AAC.

     

    anyway, i feel that the SQ of AAC anytime beats MP3 anytime, given the same bitrate.

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    yes, i am also inclined to think that way. while more pricey transports feature exotic materials used in the manufacture, sometimes i think they are very overhyped. in their product literature, they may smoke out those uninformed that the quality of the pickup/servo assembly is very critical in reducing jitter or whatever crap that can present as a irrecoverable error input to the DAC....

     

    a cheap PC CD writer has far more capable error correction capabilities than those used in highend home audio transports. that is what i found out when i popped in one of my very old CDs that have undergone some serious laser-rot (many miniscule gaps when looked thru strong light) into my home CD player and it skips big time. when popped into my PC CD burner, it ripped perfectly!

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    I'm willing to bet he'll say yes simply because he hasn't heard of other brands. Rega, Monitor Audio, Wharfedale, KEF, etc. The proper way to do it would be to teach him what to hear for, because it's possible to think that something sounds awesome the first time you hear it, only to discover lots of flaws as you listen to it more and more over the weeks, months, or years. After you've taught him that, let him sample different systems.

     

    BOSE = Buy Other Sound Equipment :lol:

     

    Dont get BOSE period. Need something small for the office? Get a mini-compo from Denon. Monitor Audio also sells a rather nifty iPod dock with amp and speakers. This will save you lots of money and you'll probably get the same sound.

     

    I dislike BOSE because of its sound - the bass is always seperated/disjoined from the mids and highs. For background music it's okay. This applies to the systems with a seperate subwoofer with sat speakers. If you're talking about the wave radio - that's not too bad but I would and have got a Tivoli Radio.

     

    BTW the parts inside it are of the cheapest quality. I have opened up one to take a look (although that was about 5 years ago).

     

    x2 to that. sonically, BOSE sounds not high not low, in fact their jewel-cube satellites are overhyped. but some establishments are using their BOSE business music systems (i last remembered Paragon installed their white cubes in their mall). to spend >3k on 5 satellites, one music centre and one bass module is crazy where other makes can have it at a fraction of their price.

     

    but i like their RF remote that works thru walls unlike most IR ones that require line-of-sight.

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